Who Counts as Asian? Stereotypes, Boundaries, and Implications for Affirmative Action

by Jennifer Lee, Columbia University

Jennifer Lee is a Professor of Sociology and a Core Faculty Member of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER) at Columbia University. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University and began her career at UCLA as a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow before joining the faculty at UC Irvine, where she rose to Chancellor’s Fellow and Professor of Sociology. She joined the faculty at Columbia University in the Fall of 2017.

Professor Lee is the author or co-author of four award-winning books: Civility in the City (2002); Asian American Youth (2004); The Diversity Paradox (2010); and The Asian American Achievement Paradox (2015).

— A reception will follow the event —

Place: The Graduate Center, The City University of New York365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street)Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)